Poetry
Our Extraordinary Monsters is Vanessa Moeller's debut poetry collection which uses language(s) to build a written architecture where meaning(s) reside(s). >>
Painting Over Sketches of Anatolia
Like a painter faced with the incongruities of the familiar and unfamiliar and a sketchbook almost full, Leonard Neufeldt explores the question of finding rootedness in an ethos quite unlike one’s own. The realities of discovering and settling in Turkey are uppermost in this collection, but a similar rootedness is evident in the lyrical invocations of western British Columbia, where the author was born and raised. >>
Paper Oranges is a poetic response to Vladimir and Estragon, Beckett's infamous pair, who pin their hopes on salvation that never arrives. It explores the notion of human existence as an extended wait characterized by quiet desperation, loneliness, suffering and the search for self. >>
Passenger Flight takes us on a harrowing but exhilarating ride through the heavy turbulence of the twenty-first century. In this collection of free-wheeling, elegantly crafted prose poems, the reader is exposed to scenes of tenderness, random violence and phantasmagorical dreams evocative of the chaos of this post-911 world. >>
Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being
Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being marches through the seasons as Jia-li, a mountain woman, and a girl philosopher inhabit their cosmos, sluicing philosophy of antiquity through twenty-first century existence. >>
Fueled by our perpetual need to find meaning and purpose in our lives, Primal Sketches is a book that considers how our actions profoundly affect the lives of fellow humans as well as the natural world around us, and how our desire to connect, care, and empathize are constantly interrupted by feelings of insecurity and growing anxiety about our uncertain future.
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Language, concept, and form alternate holding the depths of the inner sea of this book. >>
In this book, the miracle of radio opens a boy's ears to the music of the world around him. In poems that range in setting from Canada to Africa and the Middle East, Cox tells of "other miracles" as wellâ??sailboats and spaceships, ice-skates and tropical jacaranda, hair-raising escapes from danger, and the eerie harmony of coincidence. Fans will be glad to see Cox's tributes to Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and other jazz greats collected here. >>
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